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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

desocupar

Pronunciation / Transliteration: desocupar

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Vacate/ˈveɪ.keɪt/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Por favor, desocupe o quarto até o meio-dia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To leave a place, seat, or premises, making it empty for someone else.

    "Guests are requested to vacate their rooms by 11 AM on the day of departure."
  2. 2

    To officially cancel, rescind, or annul a legal judgment, contract, or position.

    "The judge decided to vacate the previous ruling due to newly discovered evidence."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb 'vacare', meaning 'to be empty, free, or at leisure'. It entered the English language in the late 16th century via the past participle stem 'vacatus', initially used in legal and administrative contexts to denote the official rendering of an office or title as vacant.

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